Books and Authors: Curious Facts and Characteristic SketchesAnonymous
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Books and Authors: Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches
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Authors; Literature -- Anecdotes
Chalmers' Preaching in London 44
Chances for the Drama 68
Chatterton's Profit and Loss Reckoning 136
Classical Pun, A 47
"Clean Hands," Lord Brougham's 79
Clever Statesmen, Swift on 116
Cobbett's Boyhood 121
Coleridge in the Dragoons 120
Coleridge as a Unitarian Preacher 123
Coleridge's "Watchman" 32
Collins' Insanity 129
Collins' Poor Opinion of his Poems 13
Colton the Author of "Lacon" 52
Conscience, A Composition with 133
Copyrights, Value of some 65
Cowley at Chertsey 108
Cowper's "John Gilpin" 58
Cowper's Poems, First Publication of 21
Criticism, Sensitiveness to 142
Curran's Imagination 107
Dangerous Fools 84
Day and his Model Wife 109
Death-bed Revelations 49
Dennis, Conceited Alarms of 132
Devotion to Science 74
Disadvantageous Correction, Lord North's 75
Drollery must be Spontaneous 58
Dryden Drubbed 151
"Edinburgh Review," Origin of the 116
Evelyn's Diary Discovered at Wotton 7
"Felon Literature" 48
Fielding's "Tom Jones" 78
Fine Flourishes, Brougham's Rebuke of 39
Flattery, Moderate 80
Fontenelle's Insensibility 124
Foote's Wooden Leg 88
Fox and Gibbon 25
French-English Jeu-de-mot 81
Fuller's Memory 69
Gibbon's House at Lausanne 98
Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer" 43
Haydn and the Ship Captain 138
Haydn's Diploma Piece at Oxford 139
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